My night.

I work graveyard shift at a small long term residence hotel as the front desk guy. I work M-F 12am - 8am. Just an hour ago a tenant came down and complained about a smell from one of the floors. They said that it smelled like someone had died. Well, I went up there with another person and the master key, banged on the suspect door a bunch, then unlocked and went in. The tenant was dead on the floor from an apparent overdose. Not my first dead body but I will not soon forget the smell or sight.

Yup, call 911 UNLESS you've seen the person die (witnessed it), in which case you can choose to assist i.e. do CPR with or without the breaths, or do nothing.

I WILL tell you that if you try to do the CPR thing, the local EMTs will BLESS you for at least TRYING to keep the person alive, thus avoiding having to secure the scene for the coroner. The hotel bigwigs might be grateful TOO, to avoid all the flashing lights around the hotel for hours.

~single biggest fear~ as a hotel manager; either witnessing it myself or having a member of my staff walk in on it. Housekeeping will usually do stay-over service regularly for long-term stays, and even if service is declined by the guest, it’s mandatory for us to check in on someone every two days or so for this reason exactly. Sorry you had to experience this :(

I used to work with doing autopsy and I hate them. Thank god that I only had to get through one. We had to cut open a skull and put his brain in a jar to get a cancer sample. It was part of my army lab tech training.

The woman found dead at a Motel at 1 a.m. Tuesday was the victim of a homicide, the [County] Sheriff's Office has determined.

Edit: Update

[Suspect] spent one night in May beating [victim] inside her home, according to police. The night-long domestic violence assault left the woman with a broken arm. [Suspect] assaulted her again after he was released. Less than a month after she posted his bail, [suspect] stabbed 61-year-old [victim] to death in front of Motel in [town] early Tuesday.

He was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with second-degree murder, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and first-degree aggravated criminal contempt. He is being held in jail without bail. [Suspect] stabbed [victim] in the chest, then sped away in her car. A surveillance camera from the motel captured part of the attack. The murder weapon has not been found.